chowdozer
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Well, not really. This woodstove has been in for about 10 years, but today I took it out to give it a fresh coat of paint so I took a few pictures. Hopefully, there's info to be gained by what I did right and wrong.
Here's the stove after I got it out. It's an older mid-80's Orley and it works well enough I haven't considered replacing it. It originally had a glass window upfront, but since it didn't draw air near the window, keeping the window clean was more trouble than it was worth. I've never really liked windows in stoves anyway, they seem like an accident waiting to happen. So I welded in a piece of 1/4" plate. If I want a romantic fire, I'll go out back and have a brush fire.
originally it looked similiar to this.
I didn't like all the fancy crap either, so I disposed of it. Less to wipe down when cleaning. The end pic shows the draft control. It had four 1" dia holes on each end with a slider that exposed them. It wasn't even close to airtight that way. They had to go. More on that later.
Here's the stove after I got it out. It's an older mid-80's Orley and it works well enough I haven't considered replacing it. It originally had a glass window upfront, but since it didn't draw air near the window, keeping the window clean was more trouble than it was worth. I've never really liked windows in stoves anyway, they seem like an accident waiting to happen. So I welded in a piece of 1/4" plate. If I want a romantic fire, I'll go out back and have a brush fire.
originally it looked similiar to this.
I didn't like all the fancy crap either, so I disposed of it. Less to wipe down when cleaning. The end pic shows the draft control. It had four 1" dia holes on each end with a slider that exposed them. It wasn't even close to airtight that way. They had to go. More on that later.